4 billion FA Han Hyun-hee Resurrection Tour Lotte Team Young Bong-seung falls to 8th place in KIA
May 14, 2025
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Lotte won 4-0 in Game 5 of the season between the KIA Tigers and the team at Gwangju Kia Champions Field on the 14th. Third-place Lotte recorded 25 wins, 17 losses, and 2 draws in the season, while seventh-place KIA fell to eighth place with only 18 wins and 22 losses.
Lotte made the starting lineup with Yoon Dong-hee (right wing), Ko Seung-min (second baseman), Reyes (left wing), Jeon Joon-woo (designated hitter), Na Seung-yeop (first baseman), Yoo Kang-nam (catcher), Son Ho-young (third baseman), Park Seung-wook (striker), and Jang Doo-sung (midfielder). The starting pitcher was Han Hyun-hee.
KIA faced off with Park Chan-ho (st baseman), Oh Sun-woo (first baseman), Kim Do-young (third baseman), Choi Hyung-woo (designated hitter), Han Jun-su (catcher), Lee Woo-sung (left fielder), Hong Jong-pyo (second baseman), Park Jae-hyun (center fielder), and Park Jung-woo (right fielder). The starting pitcher was Yoon Young-chul.
Han Hyun-hee showed signs of revival in her first start of the season. In four ⅓ innings, he pitched well with 83 pitches, five hits, two outs, and five strikeouts, setting the stage for victory. The winning pitcher's requirements were not met, but it was a better-than-expected pitch. He cooked KIA batters mainly with sliders (41) and fastballs (36), and also used changeups (4) and two-seam fastballs (2). The maximum fastball speed was 146km and an average of 143km.
Before the game, Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung "Han Hyun-hee still had a good record against KIA." He tries to use Park Jin and the two alternately as starters and long reliefs, but gave priority to Han Hyun-hee. I'll see you throw it once, but it's more likely to lead to the next opportunity.
Han Hyun-hee signed an FA contract with Lotte for a total of 4 billion won for 3+1 years ahead of the 2023 season. The down payment was 300 million won, the annual salary was 1.5 billion won, and the option was 2.2 billion won. Prior to this day, Lotte pitched 96 games (23 starts) and was sluggish with 11 wins and 15 losses, 12 holds, 180 ⅔ innings and an ERA of 5.33. This year, it was evaluated as a failure case of FA in the second division, and since the registration of the first division, he has continued to keep a good pace by scoring four scoreless ⅔ in two games, including the same day.
After Han Hyun-hee went down, Chung Hyun-soo (1 ⅔ inning), Song Jae-young (⅓ inning), Park Jin (⅓ inning), Jung Chul-won (1 ⅓ inning), and Kim Won-joong (1 inning) collaborated on the team's victory.
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Lotte continued its momentum. With no outs and runners on the first and second bases, Yoo Kang-nam drew a walk and led to the bases loaded, and Son Ho-young's sacrifice fly to center field made a 2-0 run. It was a pity that Park Seung-wook attempted a clumsy squeeze bunt at the opportunity to score additional points with one out and runners on the first and third bases, but Na Seung-yeop was tagged out at home.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, both teams actively replaced players and faced off tightly. When Lotte put Song Jae-young on the mound in the seventh inning, KIA used Byun Woo-hyuk as a pinch hitter in Hong Jong-pyo's at-bat. Byun Woo-hyuk only grounded out to third base.
In the ensuing Park Jae-hyun at-bat, Jung Hae-won stepped up as a pinch hitter. Then Lotte replaced the pitcher with Park Jin, and KIA took out Kim Kyu-sung's card as a pinch hitter again. Kim Kyu-sung hit a hit to the right, making KIA laugh in the nerve war between the two teams. Jung Chul-won took over the ball with two outs and a runner on first base. Park Chan-ho hit Jeong Cheol-won's first pitch fastball to make it two outs and first and third base, but Jung Cheol-won struck out Oh Sun-woo swinging, breaking KIA's willingness to chase. When Oh Sun-woo swung and missed on the slider at the ball count 2-2, Jung Chul-won roared with an uppercut ceremony.
Lotte scored a decisive run in the top of the eighth inning. Son Ho-young hit a home run to left to widen the distance to 3-0. Son Ho-young's matriarch home run. With two outs and runners on second base, Ko Seung-min hit a timely hit to the right to lead the team to a 4-0 victory.
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KIA filled the vacancy with Hwang Dong-ha while Yoon Young-chul was spending time reorganizing in the second division. However, on the 8th, Hwang Dong-ha crossed a crosswalk near Incheon's away accommodation The car accident twisted my mind. He was diagnosed with lumbar vertebrae No. 2 and No. 3 transverse process fracture and suddenly left. KIA decided to fill the vacancy by putting Yoon Young-chul back in the first division as soon as possible.
Yoon Young-chul took his fourth loss of the season with only 69 pitches, four hits, three outs, and four strikeouts and two runs in four innings. It was painful to be shaken by consecutive walks in the crisis.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
